Jumping 'into' a moving car...

[Melvin-Purvis]

...in keeping with the line of thought posed by that 'other' thread, my mind started to wander, again...and so I wandered, er wondered...

If you had to jump 'into' a moving car...how would you do it?

Would you stand beside the highway, pick a car, and 'jump'...or would you do something more scientific?

How would you judge the speed of the moving car? Would there be a direct correlation between the number of beers you'd had prior to jumping, or would you just 'estimate'?

What type of car would you pick, the '72 Buick Delta 88, or the '96 Toyota Corrolla?

What type of bodily damage would you expect to suffer, and how much would be acceptable?

So many questions...so little time.

I could use your help here guys, should I ever find myself in the dire situation where I needed to jump 'into' a car...cabs excluded.

Thanks in advance

Mel

 

[truck]

Dear Melvin,
Thanx, I did the jump out thing when I was a kid. Hugely drunk, one big splat, etc. Maybe I should try this one for the second half of my life. Do you think that this would prove to all that I'm still a bit brain dead?

 

[Orm]

I did this once. Me and a friend were in a parking lot outside a big shop late one night. I went to use the cash machine, whilst he waited in the car. The passenger side window of the car was open. He started doing circuits around the car park, because he was bored of waiting for me, so just as he was going past when I was coming back from the machine, I decided to give it a try. He was only going about 10 mph, and I dove through the window at 90 degrees to the car.

Of course, as soon as I jumped, and was halfway through the window, the car door hit me in the ribs... hurt like hell for a while, but all the pain had gone after I had gone to McDonalds to get some food with the money I just got out

The lesson I learnt from this was if your going to try this, run next to the car first, and don't enter at right-angles to the vechicle

Hope this helps.

Orm

 

[A Johnson]

I think it would hurt WAY more than jumping out of a car. Personaly I think I'll just let someone else try it. Preferably some form of "perfesional"

 

[truck]

Use a pick-up truck for your target. You have room to hit and roll a little and it still scare the **** out of the folks in front. I forgot about that one for awhile.

 

[Brian Jones]

I'd throw on my rollerblades, make a lasso with 550 paracord, and throw it around the front of the car. That means a corolla -- small enough for that. Then I'd enjoy the ride as I pulled myself close to the car, then leap in the window.

 

[Lens Larque]

Brian, I think your use of paracord is wholly un-realistic. Surely, as soon as the tension was taken up it would rip your hand or indeed even your arm from your body leaving you looking rather foolish, in need of medical assistance and probably with no hope of retrieving your missing appendage. Further-more you would leave the unsuspecting occupants of the car with a perplexing mystery. When they arrived at their destination would be surprised by a length of paracord attached to their vehicle with a pack of local stray dogs huddled around the end of it fighting over some, by now, unidentifiable bit of food :barf:

In such a case I would recommend the use of bungi-jumping cord with a word of caution along the lines of, careful you don,t over shoot the target car

LL

 

[OwenM]

Hmmm. I have been shot out of a car, after impacting a guard rail at around 90mph in my sleep. Woke up (actually woke up shortly during/after the wreck, but passed out about the time the ambulance came) in the trauma center with people cleaning the asphalt, dirt, and grass out of my road rash-face, arms, leg, ripped off toenail, etc-with scrub brushes, and informing me that I couldn't have anything for pain until a CAT scan had been done. I think I told them to just go ahead and kill me, after the other verbal "encouragement" that I gave them didn't seem to work
Seeing as how I didn't break a single bone, and actually left the hospital in three days, IMO I am particularly well-suited for this kind of thing.
Still...I can't help but think that being shot into a car at 90 mph would be worse, though. Would definitely try to shoot through a window, and not a door. Elevation/velocity/limb positioning/timing would all be critical. As would an adequate cannon to shoot me out of. Also of great importance, window size. Want to maximize the "window of opportunity". Definitely the '72 Buick.

Tell me again how I'm going to incorporate all this into wilderness survival

 

[Brent VanZanen]

I think I'd use the scientific method...while standing on the side of the highway,I would extend my thumb...choosing a vehicle is easy,wait for one to slow down and preferably stop.